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    Patty Coffey is the deputy district engineer for the Nashville District. She also serves as the Chief of the Planning, Programs, and Project Management Division. She assists in directing all the water resource activities of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers throughout the Cumberland River Basin, and navigation and regulatory matters in the Tennessee River Basin, an area of more than 59,000 square miles, with 49 field offices touching seven states and a work force of over 750 federal employees.

    Coffey becomes new deputy district engineer

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 26, 2017) – The commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District recently announced that Patty Coffey, acting deputy district engineer, will permanently fill the position, the highest civilian leader in the organization.
  • Dee Benson, left, provides motivation and encouragement to Amanda Sticker during a recent lunch hour strength and conditioning class at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville. Benson says wellness helps employees perform better with customers and teammates.

    Benson aids others on wellness journey

    Dee Benson wants you to have a life of longevity filled with great physical and spiritual health. Each Monday and Thursday, here at Huntsville Center, she helps willing coworkers to achieve those goals. Benson, Business Practices Chief in the Business Management Office, leads a lunch time class from 12:30 -1:15 p.m. in the fitness center designed to improve an individual’s physical health.
  • U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville employees listen as Allan Malcomb with the Army Corps’ Nashville District explains ongoing efforts to shore up the saddle dam located at Center Hill Lake July 20.

    Huntsville Center group gains perspective at Center Hill Dam

    Participants in Huntsville Center’s current Leadership Development Program Level II traveled to Lancaster, Tennessee, to get a closer look at Nashville District’s ongoing rehabilitation project at Center Hill Dam, July 20.
  • An external view of a water level gauge house in Mackinaw City, MI. Photo by Jeff Oyler. Courtesy of NOAA.

    Gauging who does what: USACE, NOAA and how the Great Lakes water levels are measured

    The 2017 spring and summer flooding event along Lake Ontario garnered considerable media and
  • Th e 1973-1975 version of The Dalles Dam Tour Train consisted of a 25-ton General Electric locomotive and partially-enclosed passenger car painted a matching green and yellow.

    Memories of Les Dalles Portage Railroad

    The Dalles Lock & Dam had a railroad that ferried visitors from the parking lot at what is now Seufert Park to the dam from 1973 - 2005.